This works too Teaching practical skills to blind and severely visually impaired children and adolescents Bartiméus aims to record and share knowledge and experience about the capabilities of people with visual impairments. The Bartiméus series is one of the ways they do this. Colophon Bartiméus PO Box 340 3940 AH Doorn The Netherlands Tel: +31 (0)88 88 99 888 Email:
[email protected] www.bartimeus.nl Authors: Dita Rijneveld Jelly van Dijk Illustrations: Zippy Communicatie Editing: ABC Redactie Culemborg ‘This digital edition is based on the first edition with ISBN 978-94-91838-56-9’ © 2017 Bartiméus All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in an automated digital database or published, in any form or by any other means, be this electronically, mechanically, by photocopies, recording or by any other manner, without the publisher’s prior written consent. 2 Foreword This book is for parents and carers of infants, toddlers and children, but also for adolescents and young adults. The text deals with the functioning of children and adolescents in the field of practical self-reliance at different stages of life, from dependence during infancy/toddlerhood to independence in adolescence. It’s about discovering how things work, about cause and effect, about showing, doing things together and independently, about gaining experience and expanding horizons, and it’s about how this all fits in with a child’s developmental phase, the expectations of the parents, the immediate environment and society. The book covers the systematic learning of skills such as learning to dress, finding a new packet of biscuits in a cupboard, doing the shopping and learning to make tea.